<![CDATA[WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Vodafone Predicts the Future:
It used to be a requirement that cutting-edge technology companies produce a video showing what The Future ™ will be like when the swoopy new toys their R&D folks are thinking about over beers eventually come to pass. The best-known of these videos is the Apple “Knowledge Navigator” video from the early 1990s (and if anyone has a link to that video, please let me know), showing just how much better (happier, more fulfilling, not drinking too much, etc.) your life will be (in The Future ™) once you have a computer-generated guy in a bowtie reading your email to you, making your travel plans, carrying on an affair with your spouse (if I remember correctly)…
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Here’s a scary fact: AT&T once followed me around for a day to make one of these films, which it showed at Comdex…. They said I lived slightly in the future. Of course, look what happened to AT&T and Comdex after that.]]>
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